Triple the Water Jugs

Five water jugs filled one bay, neat and honest.

Triple it, said Spike. How many jugs for three bays?

Suzy tapped: five and five and five — fifteen jugs. Three times five.

Not sixteen because thirst felt loud. Loud is not a counting stick.

They lined fifteen jugs across three bays and left the shed calm.

Goats appreciated the plan. Sheep practised patient queue maths.

Adventure Cap wanted a dramatic fountain. Care said fill enough, then stop.

Thinking Cap habit: name the groups, then multiply with looking. Cap does not invent jugs.

Kids: five cups in a row — make three rows. Count the pile.

Farm times-tables are promises animals can trust later.

Tools remind. Jugs still get carried.

Three times five = fifteen. Soft fill.

3 × 5 = fifteen jugs.